Education Quotes on Learning & Knowledge – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Simon Newcomb

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

Bobby Scott

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Rabindranath Tagore

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

Ellsworth Huntington

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Alphonso Jackson

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

Sargent Shriver

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Mary Astell

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Chanakya

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Mortimer Adler

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Norman Cousins

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

Marilyn vos Savant

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

Alphonso Jackson

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

Dean Kamen

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

William Glasser

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Sydney J. Harris

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Marshall McLuhan

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

Ed Markey

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Lee Iacocca

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

Constance Baker Motley

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Wole Soyinka

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

Steve Case

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Ron Lewis

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

Chaka Fattah

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

Sidney Blumenthal

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

Edsger Dijkstra

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

William P. Leahy

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.

Roy Barnes

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.

Anne McCaffrey

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

Alphonso Jackson

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

Polly Toynbee

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Harry S. Truman

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

Paul D. Boyer

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

Mark Kennedy

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Horace Mann

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Ellsworth Huntington

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Eric Allin Cornell